Dick B. interviews Christian Recovery leader Don C. on
the March 27, 2013, episode of the "Christian Recovery Radio with Dick
B." show on
www/ChristianRecoveryRadio.com
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First,
some special points by Don C., “the communicator,” about what else you can see
and hear right now on his own media outlets. I begin with his message:
I am a Throat Cancer survivor, diagnosed and treated
successfully last year. I’m a worship pastor who sings my heart out for Jesus,
so it was a miracle that I survived and that my voice is stronger than it’s
ever been right now.
I’ve written a book titled 12
Steps: NOT For Dummies in which I
point chronic relapsers to how A.A.
Cofounders Bill W. and Dr. Bob did recovery in the beginning—2 men and a Bible!
See 12StepsNotForDummies.com
I’m worship pastor for Salvation Army’s Lytton Springs Celebrate
Recovery meetings twice a month, too, bringing my rock band “The Message Project”
in to lead worship http://MessageProject.com
I have several websites that are vastly underused: http://iRecovered.net. This is for people’s testimonies; and
people can post them in the forum, and I’ll transfer them to my blog http://RecoveringCommunity.com – a message board that I put together right
before my Throat Cancer adventure last year.
“I Love AA” is another website covering much of the historical material
I have learned from Dick B.’s major website www.dickb.om. See also http://IloveAA.com
Dick B.’s Introduction to the
Christian Recovery Radio interview of Don C.
Our guest today is
Christian recovery leader Don C. from the Santa Rosa, California, area. I'm
quite familiar with this area because my parents had a wonderful home in nearby
Sebastopol where my own family spent many hours as visitors for some 20 years.
And the visits often took us over to Don's territory for flower exhibits,
county fair days, and other outings.
Often, I am able to
recount the personal contacts I have had with our Christian leaders; but Don's
case has been different. Don has done lots of recovery work with alcoholics and
addicts in his area. He has fully supported the mission of the International
Christian Recovery Coalition (www.ChristianRecoveryCoalition.com) and posted
many of our historical items on his Web sites. He has great Web sites--which he
will tell you about. But we are in Hawaii, Don is in central California, and
Don has had health and other problems which limited our contact until we met
him in Northern California last month.
However, Don C. now
has an important post in the recovery arena. He also drove from Santa Rosa to
the San Jose Area to meet with several Christian recovery leaders, and Ken and
me, to discuss networking, conferences, and disseminating more information
about the role that God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible have played in
recovery from alcoholism and addiction and can play today.
Don will tell us
about these things. He will also fill us in on his upbringing, family, jobs,
education, and relationship with God through His Son Jesus Christ. And he will
tell us a bit about his drinking and addiction experiences, as well as the
important recovery work he is doing now. We look forward to hearing lots about
Don C.'s godly efforts in the future.
And now--take it
away, Don
Synopsis of the Christian
Recovery Radio Interview of Don C., RAS
Things have changed
in A.A. and the recovery community in the Santa Rosa, California area. When Don
entered the rooms of A.A., you could not say even the word “Lord.” Today, in
Sonoma County, California, there is a different attitude—based on the
increasingly widespread knowledge that the Bible is the source of the Twelve
Steps.
Don’s book 12 Steps: NOT For Dummies has taken off
like a rocket—not only in Don’s own area, but widely elsewhere. He tells about
early A.A. with its Morning Devotions and Bible studies. He lays out more
spiritual principles that enable the suffering folks to gain a real
understanding of God in connection with the 12 Steps. There was a great need
for such work because recovery with the Bible had virtually stopped in later
A.A. We reviewed with Don the important A.A. Conference-approved resource The Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous:
Biographical Sketches: Their Last Major Talks—designated Pamphlet P-53.
There, the words of Dr. Bob spell out the vital importance of the Bible in the
A.A. successes before there were any drunkalogs, Steps, Traditions, or Big
Books. And Don believed it vital to disseminate to alcoholics and addicts
information about the History of A.A. and do it free. Don relied heavily on the
material on Dick B.’s main website www.dickb.com.
Don previously was
Director of Missions and then Program Director of the largest recovery facility
in his area. Then he got his present job with the County of Sonoma—bringing
inmates from the jail into programs.
Ten years sober, Don
changed from a Christian hater demanding “Prove it!” when the Word about Jesus
walking on the water and the parting of the Red Sea were mentioned. Almost
miraculously, when Don was a carpenter and doing carpentry work for a lady, he
was given Josh McDowell’s book More Than
a Carpenter. Seven years after the gift, Don opened the book. Then he
thought, what if the donor asks me if I’ve read it. So he read the book. He
closed the book, and immediately Don felt the presence of Jesus; and Don’s
heart was on fire for the Lord.
Don’s relationship
with Jesus then became “My understanding” And he got to know the Lord.
The future for Don
is bright. He toured the jail with a badge that gave him a “pass.” And this was
with a program called “Starting Point.” He has also interviewed for another job
and is excited that things are popping up all around him to glorify and serve
our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ. His wife has been blessed with the
same fire. Now his little daughter has come to love the Lord. When Don is not
at work, he gives praise to the Lord; and, in the case of his daughter, asked
Him to reveal himself to the little girl. And “God let me know.”
With his throat
cancer problem resolved, Don is loaded with blessings that will enable him to
continue in his Christian recovery leadership and work and blast away with the
message of what God can do for the alcoholic and addict when sought.
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